How is vista when transferring mainboard?

snowdog · 9 Oct 2007 at 23:33

As per title:
How is vista when transferring mainboard?

With Xp I'm sure I can make the change from intel 945p to intel 965p ( hell, before 945p I had nforce 4 sli x32 intel version and intel 875x on my current XP install), however I'm not sure about vista, any idea if it'll boot fine on intel 965p when it's configed on 945p?

Vista x64 ultimate btw.

Slinky1989 · 9 Oct 2007 at 23:34

As far as I know it's ok but not great. I've heard that it becomes quite unreliable afterwards and a lot slower from a friend who tried.

Best to reinstall.

snowdog · 9 Oct 2007 at 23:39

Reinstall is not an option though, I'd even prefer to just stay on this spec 4 ever than to reinstall either of my 2 OS'es, no way I'm going to reinstall over 200 of apps& games per OS.

What type of chipset jump did your friend try?
This time I recon it's a subtle upgrade for me, just new north and SB, rest of hardware stays same.
For example XP didn't mind at all when I went from intel 875x to nforce 4 sli & a new cpu & new ram & new gfx.

d.chatten · 10 Oct 2007 at 01:32

I have successfully changed motherboards in two of my systems with no noticable loss in performance, if any, both running Vista HP 32bit.

I found the best way to do this is to uninstall the drivers for the graphics card, sound card and network adapters before the motherboard is changed, when the motherboard has been changed, start Windows in safe mode so the needed drivers for the motherboard can be installed, after this just restart the system and boot into Windows normaly.

You say you are going from a 945 to a 965 chipset, if this is the case then do the following when you boot into Windows normaly, make shure UAC is disabled then download the "infinst_autol.exe" from the Intel website HERE and save it to your "C:\" drive, now use this command > "C:\infinst_autol.exe -OVERALL" from an elevated "cmd" Window, this command will search your hardware and install Intel drivers for every Intel component on your motherboard, even if third party drivers are already installed, such as microsoft's built in drivers, so when you are finished there won't be any Microsoft drivers at all.

Hope this helps!

snowdog · 10 Oct 2007 at 16:39

TY

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Will do when my p5b deluxe arrives

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Skully · 10 Oct 2007 at 17:02

I added a GB of ram and I had to reinstall Vista!

That was quite surprising, went back to XP for a little while until I buy a C2D PC!

snowdog · 10 Oct 2007 at 18:20

Skully said:
I added a GB of ram and I had to reinstall Vista!

That was quite surprising, went back to XP for a little while until I buy a C2D PC!

That's definatly wrong?
I've had all kind's of ram in vista, from 1 gb to 4 gb, and never needed to do anything.
Never heard a pc needing a reinstall for more RAM.